Visual Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Visual Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A photographic essay on socio-economic organisation – temporary shelters in Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada)15
Photography and reality. Reflections around the role of the photographer among photo students in Russia and Sweden9
The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History9
Images among images: a map scholar response8
Ephemeral literacies: reflecting on the impermanence of maize reading divination7
The faces of Auschwitz: digital colourisation, ethics and the archive6
On AI colourisation: algorithms, ancestry, and colour beyond the black box6
The patchwork method: on David Redmon and Ashley Sabin5
No heritage found on map: the vanishing villages of Hong Kong5
Tracking transitions: an ethnographic visual study of the manual sand miners in Bihar, India5
Naked modernisation: the rise and fall of the erotic humour magazines in 1930s Turkey4
Gentrification and changing visual landscapes: a Google Street View analysis of residential upgrading and class aesthetics in Hamilton’s Lower City4
Design cards as visual interventions: visualising and visioning net zero futures4
Dolors project: art-based polyethnography evoking contemporary rural mothering through photography, dance and chapbooks4
New species in the Mediterranean: a visual essay on human impact on biodiversity4
Elements of a riot: forms of political violence in contemporary France4
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color4
In light of #MeToo: reconsidering the art/artist relationship for better futures4
Editorial4
Bounding an archiving: assessing the relative completeness of the Jacques Toussele archive using pattern-matching and face-recognition3
Neither spectacular nor ordinary: a visual essay on imaginations and homes in Beijing from 2007 to 20193
Black modernisms in the transatlantic world3
Being specific about ‘digital images’3
Survival and social support networks: visual narratives of labour market integration among highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec3
Facilitating Black identity and advocacy: creating cellphilms for reflecting on issues affecting Black students3
Dressing and undressing Duchamp3
The distinctive reality of schizophrenia in Swallow Me Whole and HOAX Psychosis Blues : exploring comics and their narrative space3
Prosody: an ode to the city3
Creating counter-landscapes: art-based research in two logistics parks in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel (Germany)3
Pygmalion in the archive: the mythic desires of colourisation3
Editors’ introduction3
The shape of Utopia: the architecture of radical reform in nineteenth-century America3
Romaphobia and mainstreaming of nativism: visual representations of Roma during the Brexit referendum in the UK3
Living in post-Brexit Britain during the pandemic: how did it feel for EU citizens?3
Using cellphilm-making as advocacy: adolescent girls’ access to reproductive health services in primary health care facilities in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal3
Difficulties with diversity: reflections on representation in sandboxing studies3
Elaborated images as decolonial praxis3
Rebel imaginings: street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia3
Making a scene!: How visionary individuals created an international photography scene in Houston, Texas2
Spaces in between: using the Zwischenraum to explore the archiving practices of young expats in Berlin2
Designing Chineseness: an interview with Mingxuan Shen on the New Wonton typeface2
A critical assessment of the Russian-language literature in the field of visual culture2
A visual essay of everyday life at the Finnish-Russian border after (and before?) the Iron Curtain2
When the cannons roar, comics panels fall silent: on silent representations of traumatic events in Israeli comics and graphic novels2
Editorial2
Visualizing entrenched historical trauma and inherited fear: a linguistic and semiotic landscape account of Jakarta’s traditional Chinatown Glodok2
Home is where it happens: a visual essay on pandemic parenting for employed mothers2
‘Breaking the chains’: reflections on the making of an ethnographic documentary on human rights violations against people with mental illness in Indonesia2
Copyright as an ethical dimension of visual research: preserving ownership across the research process2
Social semiotic analysis of photographic portrayals of Iranian elders on websites2
Earthquakes, communities and heritage: Telling stories of resilience through co-designed immersive media2
Editorial2
Wake up, this is Joburg2
Unfolding the entangled geosemiotics of technologically-mediated gated communities:Mountain View’s (2021) advertisement as a case study2
Looking at Laurie; reconsidering an image of ‘madness’2
Cross-cultural visual communication at the Wanchin Church in Taiwan2
Howard S. Becker and visual sociology2
Graphic journeys: virtual dark tourism in Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza2
The social life of private thoughts2
Visual stratification and algorithmic hegemony in digital visual culture of China2
Reimagining food systems and food futures: a visual approach2
Editorial2
Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China1
Embracing new paths in visual research facilitation: opportunities, tensions & ethical considerations1
Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny1
‘There were days I felt empty’: care, affect, and graphic medicine1
Other Lines: visualising shifting horizons and atmospheric pollution along the Wirral Peninsula1
#EverydayNile Correspondences1
A room of your own: photographs of situations of well-being taken by patients suffering from a stress-related illness1
Lettuce grow in the city1
The business of postcolonial immigration: marketing of immigration services in Punjab, India1
Coming off fossil fuels: Visual recollection of fossil fuel dependency1
Emoji and social media paralanguage1
Sounding of the idols. Visual deception and religious images in Brazil1
Decoding the symbolic storm fuelling Greek far-right politics: a visual essay1
Imagining the city1
The image is a cure1
From pages to posts: the evolution of memory-making from scrapbooking to Instagram1
The 360 diary method in experiential education: using social media as a complementary method to interviews and audio diaries1
Remembering Rob Boonzajer Flaes1
Topologies of air1
The time of the landscape: On the origins of the aesthetic revolution1
Co-producing place narratives: participatory visual storytelling through the lens of youth1
Finding the local (meta)picture1
Dirty pictures1
A theory of assembly: From museums to memes1
The baggage of representation: man with a red carrier bag searching for a signal1
A study of transgender: in the reflection of historical context and contemporary artistic expressions of Lahore, Pakistan1
Gazing through the window: A participatory Covid-19-exhibition for a nation in crisis1
The eye of capital. Jonathan Crary and the history of attention1
The coloniality beneath the aesthetics: a study on the reclining female schema in modern Chinese photography1
Methodology for a comparative quantitative analysis of film colour: a comparison between Cannes and box-office results1
Whom to Follow: The Staged Satire of Chinese Education in Wang Qingsong’s Photography1
Embodying parkour’s visual subculture: ethos, style and the emergence of a visual habitus1
Building culture: constructing visual continuity in Hangzhou before G201
Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: introduction to the special issue for Visual Studies1
Decoding visual culture1
Editorial1
Introduction: Visibility, images, Palestine/Israel1
Rethinking fashion photography: reconstructing identities, decolonising bodies and resistance in postcolonial Morocco1
Visual arts: imagining ashanzhaicity in twenty-first century China1
Visualising state-led gentrification in Tāmaki, Auckland1
The unlimited joy, ‘once you start you can’t stop’: masculinity in domestic technology commercials in Turkey1
Reading Reisewitz’s Altamira: An Analytical and Evocative Photo-Study Altamira1
What is an image in the digital age?1
‘It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information1
‘Let us teach our children’: Online racism and everyday far-right ideologies on TikTok1
Embodying Art – How We See, Think, Feel, and Create1
Everything to Play For: How videogames are changing the world1
Moving boundaries: visual sociology meets border studies1
Macao and Hengqin on China’s southern coast: aesthetic reading of infrastructural materiality and island integration1
Camouflaging colonialism: a case study of a NeoColonial Museum0
Pictures of Longing: Photography and the Norwegian-American Migration0
Creative endings: visual cultures, generative AI & machinic intuitions0
A beautiful ghetto0
Fabricating Lureland: A history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea0
Facilitating a ‘virtual space’ for social change during the COVID-19 pandemic: working with high-risk population using an arts-informed method0
Editorial0
Quiet Spaces: Public Places – visual representation of vulnerable identities0
Using visual technology in educational ethnography: Theory, method and the visual0
Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil0
Beyond the visuality of Western architecture. The Chinese home from inward haven to outward representation0
Signs of change: community, collective action, and gentrification in Brooklyn, New York0
Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy0
Homes that house precarity: a visual essay on capturing an eco-dystopian reality0
Para/texts for the movie Archie’s Final Project: navigating stigma and profit imperatives to discuss suicide and human connections0
Coral empire: underwater oceans, colonial tropics, visual modernity0
In/human hues: colourisation between photography and film0
Painting in the 1980s: Reimagining the medium0
Building internal reputation in stigmatised neighbourhoods: the use of remote participatory photo mapping0
Collaboratively videoing mobile activities0
Visuality and Parrēsia : Ai Weiwei’s countervisual re-enactment of Alan Kurdi’s image0
Heir to the throne: photography and the rise to presidency by politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa0
COVID diaries: quotidian snapshots of life during the pandemic0
Crisis vision: Race and the cultural production of surveillance0
Lost places: mental images as an expanded form of visuality in Chile's popular revolt0
Visual Sociology 2nd Edition Douglas Harper and Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials 5th Edition Gillian Rose0
The techno-politics of programming vision0
Revisiting the Kahn collection: multimodal artificial intelligence and visual patterns of presence and absence in the Archives de la Planète , 1909–19310
The burden of the present in Gareth Brookes, The Dancing Plague0
Spirit in film: the work of James Ault0
Metaphoric visual expressions in African art: an iconographical analysis of selected artworks by contemporary visual artists0
The influence of Russian religious aesthetics on Russian animation0
Waste Not Want Not : art, recycling and community building in a Johannesburg creative collaboration0
Warao queen: challenging beauty in Venezuela – the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology 20200
Infertilities: A Curation0
Engaging young people in architectural research: three visual methods for understanding the impact of the built environment on children’s wellbeing0
Understanding social critique in graffiti art from a (non-)Western perspective: Chinese students comparing Banksy and Zato through photo-elicitation0
Kodachrome and the fantasy of colourisation or what time is there?0
Theoretical, methodological, and ethical proposal to produce critical-liberating cinema: a Freirean perspective0
Home office: the places where we worked - a directive sent out to friends, friends-of-friends, and colleagues - March/April 20200
Organic futurism: sedimented pasts, speculative futures in the shadow of catastrophe0
Self-portrait in the photo booth: self-representation in the selfie era, a Photo-based Educational Research Project0
Seeing South Asia: visuals beyond borders0
Outline of an interdisciplinary method: from counter-visual ethnography to tracing0
The presence and perceptibility of personal digital data: findings from a participant map drawing method0
What is an Image? Artists’ panel transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 20220
Remote justice: a visual essay on the response of the Dutch justice system to the COVID-19 pandemic0
Remembering Howie0
Delta voices of climate crisis: Community Digital Storytelling in Bangladesh and Vietnam0
Short videos as affective contagion: (Un)locked WeChat chatlogs on viral videos0
Cold War Camera0
Will I ever be good enough?0
Citizens’ photography: a comparative analysis0
‘All the good spots are already taken’: the visual properties of interior social sceneries0
Visualizing Empire. Africa, Europe, and the politics of representation0
A change of luck: the comics scholarship of Hillary Chute0
Multisensory approaches in migration research: reflections and pathways0
Seeing a pandemic: how COVID changed urban spaces and places0
From bricoleur to carver – A methodological provocation from video ethnographic inquiry0
Addressing corruption through visual tools in India: the case of three civil society initiatives and their Facebook pages0
From making visible to hiding. Visual representations of financial markets as tools of manipulation and active and living agents0
Border tunnels: a media theory of the U.S.-Mexico underground0
Guest Editors’ introduction0
The spectacle of the Chinese city: urban atmospheres, the built environment and everyday practices0
Degenerate ecocinema: indexing entropy with drones0
Images of Childhood: A Visual History from Stone to Screen0
Reconfiguring spaces in FARC’s demobilisation camps: the cases of Tierra Grata and Pondores, Colombia0
Story Poles (Solana Beach, California), 20210
Experiments with immediacy and practices of interactivity: bodies of artists in early Japanese video art0
The crisis of ugliness: From cubism to pop-art0
States of Australia’s agri-environment: visual extractions from degraded landscapes0
Virtual identity construction in translanguaging spaces: unveiling the semiotic power of emojis in Lil Miquela 's Instagram posts0
A feminist rewriting of cartoon captions0
Altered spaces: new ways of seeing and envisioning nature with Minecraft0
The photography of José Gómez de la Carrera and the construction of the territorial image of the early Republic of Cuba0
Professionalism, privilege and publicity: representations of development cooperation in amateur photography and Finnish newspapers, 1968–19720
Ring this bell if you want to save our planet0
Polka - Using the Camera as a Research Instrument0
The body of prison power0
If_I_Had_Let_Me, 20220
The human shutter: photographs, stereoscopic depth, and moving images0
The spectacle of demonstration: visual representation of political imagination during the coronavirus crisis0
Editors' introduction0
Film ethnography and critical consciousness: exploring a community-based action research methodology for Freirean transformation0
Gustav Fritsch’s photographs of mid-nineteenth-century southern Africa0
Chornobyl visual lexicon: exploring the visual framing of toxic heritage from the point of view of participatory culture0
Thinking with Sarah Kaufman’s Devil’s Pool0
The Persian painting and the Iranian Traditional Medicine0
Chasing the unseen real: the birth of a Xianniang animation and the post-Qualitative inquiry awakening0
Framing urbanities: invisible/visible urban assemblages0
Past caring: archive, affect, and whiteness in digital colourisation0
A sad tree: visualising ecological emotions through bodies in place0
Editorial0
Correction0
Documentary photography as vocation: reflecting on Frank Cancian’s contribution to visual studies0
Visual Studies X The Open Eye Gallery: interview with Open Eye Director Sarah Fisher and Curator Mariama Attah0
Smoothness, beauty, and persuasion in Chinese political visual culture0
The Myths of Myrskylä– Light painting local stories and enhancing empathy for the place0
Svalbard Railway (Rachel Tanur 2022 1st Prize)0
Oak tree, gum tree: screen collaborations across time zones, 20220
The media swirl: Politics, audiovisuality, and aesthetics0
We Know It When We See It0
Resilient rebound: a visual essay on materials science researchers confronting plastic pollution in the post-COVID-19 era0
Mortevivum: photography and the politics of the visual0
Parallel public: experimental art in late east Germany0
Quiet resilience0
Ethnografilm review0
A study of light pollution discourse in Hong Kong0
Familia, 20180
Untitled (Maestra) 20220
Interconnectedness, place and growth: a visual essay on transformative learning0
The loneliness room: a creative ethnography of loneliness0
Breathing aesthetics0
‘What do we see when we look at people on the move’? A visual intervention into civil sphere and symbolic boundary theory0
Urban research in film using walking tours and psychogeographic approaches0
Preserving the ephemeral: A visual typology of augmented reality filters on Instagram0
Nervous systems: Art, systems, and politics since the 1960s0
Interweaving artist-researcher-teacher identities: facilitating visitor-artwork interactions0
Guest Editors’ introduction0
What can voice do? Combining narrative methods and participant-produced photography to explore contemporary cancer survivorship0
Masks and emotional distance: a visual study of human relationships in the Covid-19 pandemic0
Editors’ introduction0
What is an inclusive city? Reconfiguring participation in planning with geospatial photovoice to unpack experiences of urban belonging among marginalised communities0
Participating and observing: Howie up close0
Visualising gendered space and informality: a photo essay0
Notions of the visible and the invisible: visualising the otherness of women with invisible (gynaecological) illness0
Filmic sociology: theory and practice0
Correction0
Performativity and intersemiotic translation in contemporary art: the case of Hong Kong Atlas0
That venerable old temple, 20220
Visual reciprocity and #vanlife in the visual commons: Vancouver Island is a VW bus0
The place of poetics within documentary filmmaking: The art of fact0
From canvas to cyberspace: contemporary Tibetan art and the digital Tibetan identity landscape0
The Routledge companion to art and disability0
The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity0
Shifting perspectives: exploring the intersection of traditional and digital photography in contemporary artistic practices0
Unnatural nature – visual, spatial, and temporal contexts controlling our air0
Visibilising gentrification-induced displacement: a visual essay on the role of a socially and politically engaged photographic practice in housing activism0
Walker Evans: No politics0
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